Parkman was twenty-three, half-blind and often ill, and rode out from St Louis to live with a band of Oglala Sioux. The result is the classic first-hand account of the plains in the last years before they changed — the buffalo, the emigrant trains, the trading posts, and the people he watched at close quarters.
The American plains in 1846, by a great historian at twenty-three. Download the free EPUB.